Echos

Elected in the Top 5 of the best jazz accordionists.

Each time he plays and improvises, Frédéric Viale knows how to open up space, to fire up time, to invent a quality of breathing that is ample and wide. Under his fingers, the "shiver box" becomes a "jazz box". Here is a true jazzman who never jazzes, never gives in to the vain vertigo of the debagoulis of notes as do too many talkative musicians who have nothing urgent to say but express it at length. Viale, on the contrary, goes straight to the point, without embellishments, to the essential.

It's not easy to switch from world music, from the musette I love, to chanson, to jazz, but the conversion is successful for the talented accordionist Frédéric Viale. Good luck, dear Frédéric!

Con Frédéric, sono bastate poche parole ed una stretta di mano. Ed ecco che lo strumento per Frederic è nato. La sua musica ed il nostro artigianato sono un concerto perfetto!

Frédéric is the velvety-legged jazzman who knows how to surprise us with both accordion and accordina.

Està muito bonito o seu cd, Frédéric! Parabéns pelas composições, arranjos e aosmúsicos! Um grande abraço! Viva a Música Universal!

Frédéric Viale is a poet of the accordion, of those who touch your heart. He tells himself in freedom and his music is as close to us as the company and speech of a friend can be.

A jazz that slumbers in popular balls all over the world and leads to a spontaneous, catchy and harmonious music: this is the Belle Chose according to Viale.

I've never heard an accordion sound like that!

A Musical Favourite

The themes are lyrical and charming, they stay in the ear and the improvisations fly away with a joyful ardour.

A singing and dancing virtuosity with a kind of melody within reach of the bellows.

I like the temperament, the musical sense and the determination of this musician.

His music is rich and melodic, a patchwork of jazz, musette, tango and world music. The whole is served by a breathtaking virtuosity.

It's very good jazz, the one we like, full of music and swing. It's an album that deserves a great place in the world of Jazz. With a big friendly bravo.

A complete artist